Point

on hurled me backward in

l floorboards and plunged into i

with lethal silver

. My vision faded t

going

wer shattered. The terrible wounds inflicted by silver poison burned away the seals holding back my bloodline. Blinding,

d, fractured, and re‑knitted

ged through my veins, purging every t

this in the clan'

hite

ess herself, bearer of the rarest, most

de me for years, suppressed by chi

death, the White Wo

pt me miles downstream until I w

cellar. When the greedy doctor demanded an exorbitant advance fee to hide a fugitive wolf, I sliced my wrist open before his eyes and let three drops of my newly awakened glowing‑white blood drip into a glass vial. The liq

a lone wolf without a pack, existing

r a full week while my new white‑wolf blo

nic television. Wolf‑clan news was broa

d by millions of wolf‑net users. Everyone saw it: her fake tearf

the whole network; people conde

for me as an anonymous wandering wolf through the neutral‑zone court, and the Council of Elders was compelled to answer it. The petition pointed directly to the cla

ilter. They also found the fire‑extinguisher canister Kael had used up. Most damning of all, the logs showed Julian had secretly patched a vial of real silver solution into the

and‑rescue teams had officially hal

off the t

and rented a tiny, cheap apartmen

s. My hand froze halfway to the faucet. The tap was made of

ough it was being crushed. I collapsed onto cold b

severe psychological trauma left by silver p

silently weeping, until I finally found

issors. I cut away my scorched, damaged long hair, letting s

ly two weeks had passed since the explosion, and my father was h

ow. Clutching my portrait, he shouted hysterically at th

re on the jaw. My own brother screamed accusations

elling that I had smashed th

you two had not triggered that false alarm, she would n

, landing heavy blows. Seraphina stood nearby, wailing

other bloody, yet felt no

he live‑st

ficial mate‑bond termination certification, my formal declaration of leaving th

had left for dead in

lf would make them